![]() This year the award will go posthumously to the recently deceased poet, novelist and book collector Gerrit Komrij. ![]() On Saturday, October 6 at 3.00 pm Rovers will present the Boudewijn Büch-Prize, awarded to someone who has brought antiquarian books to the attention of a large audience. contrasting the ostensible Globe performance is the First Folio published twenty years after the Irish campaign. Since 2011 she is working on the biography of the bibliophile writer and television producer Boudewijn Büch, for which she has gained exclusive access to his archives. In 2010 Rovers published a widely acclaimed and award-winning biography of art collector Helene Kröller-Müller. In addition, book foundations, bibliophile organizations and magazines will present their work, as for example: Bijzondere Collecties UvA, Boekenpost, De Boekenwereld, Museum Meermanno, Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant and the Vereniging Nederlandse Handboekbinderijen.Įva Rovers, biographer of Boudewijn Büch, will open the 33rd edition of the Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair on Friday, October 5 at 1.45 pm. 30 ILAB dealers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States will present rare and valuable books, manuscripts and ephemera from all centuries. It is considered one of the most influential books ever published. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., has sent copies of the First Folio on the road to a number of U.S. While the First Folio exhibition is here, the Harrison North Gallery will be open during the following hours:įor more on First Folio events read the full article “ Nine Things to Do With Shakespeare’s First Folio, Coming to UVA in October” ( UVA Today, ).This year’s Amsterdam Antiquarian Book, Map & Print Fair will be held on Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6 in the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. The First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and the foundation of Shakespeare’s enduring legacy and reputation. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, a published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. Fans of William Shakespeare have a rare opportunity to view the first collected edition of his plays, known as the First Folio, at Carnegie Mellon University. in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, UVA drama students will present a program “Vigil for the Bard!”, including sonnets, monologues, and-in time for Halloween!-the witches’ scene from Macbeth. Wednesday, October 12, at 4:00 p.m., in the Special Collections auditorium, Virginia Mason Vaughan, professor emerita of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, will present the Tracy and Katherine McGregor Distinguished Lecture in American History, “Shakespeare for the American People.”įriday, October 14, at 4:00 p.m. ![]() Drama students will interact with the public actors from Staunton’s American Shakespeare Center will give pointers on Shakespearean performance craft tables will display items related to Elizabethan stagecraft and there will be a raffle for tickets to the drama department’s presentation of The Comedy of Errors at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 8, 11:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m., in front of the Harrison-Small building (the auditorium in case of rain) there will be a Family Day. Without it, we wouldn’t even be talking about Shakespeare, says Emma Smith, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries. The event is free and open to the public. Monday, October 3, 5:00 p.m.– 6:30 p.m., at the Ruth Caplin Theater, Andrew Wade-former Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company-will lecture and take questions. First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare-on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library-arrives October 1 at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library to become a featured part of the exhibition “ Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing, and Publishing.” The First Folio will reside in the Harrison North Gallery, on display with UVA’s Shakespeare treasures until October 26, when it travels to its next destination, part of a celebration of Shakespeare’s life on the 400 th anniversary of his death in 1616.Ī UVA Today article, “Nine Things to Do With Shakespeare’s First Folio, Coming to UVA in October,” gives a schedule of events surrounding the First Folio’s arrival:
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